lawyer, b. Ottawa, Canada. He moved to Wisconsin in 1856, and worked as a school teacher in various towns and for six years in Chicago. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar in Berlin, and in 1872 served one year as district attorney of Green Lake County. In 1873 he moved to Wausau where he was co-founder of the noted law firm of Hurley and Silverthorn. As a lawyer, Hurley was primarily interested in the development of northern Wisconsin mineral lands, and was noted for arguing and winning a critical Gogebic iron range case in 1881. The mining town of Hurley was named in his honor. He was one of the founders of the Wisconsin State Bar Association, was elected its vice-president in 1878, and its president in 1910. He retired from active practice in 1912. E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); L. Marchetti, Hist. of Marathon Co. . . . (Chicago, 1913); Wausau Pilot, Oct. 2, 1917.Learn More
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